NYLO PLANO at Legacy hosts Movies Under the Stars every Thursday night through Nov. 15, starting tonight with Anchorman (2004, R, 94 mins.) at 8, poolside at the Loft Restaurant and Lounge, 8201 Preston Road, Plano. Vote every Friday on the venue’s Facebook page (facebook.com/nyloplanoatlegacy) for the movie that will be shown the next Thursday. Free. 972-624-6990, nylohotels.com.

RAP STATESMAN Chuck D narrates filmmaker Jason Orr’s look at soul music from the 1980s to the mid-2000s through the prism of the influential FunkJazz Kafé. Diary of a Decade: The Story of a Movement (2012, 134 mins.) plays Oct. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Dallas Convention Center Theater Complex, 1309 Canton St. Orr will lead a discussion at 8:45 p.m. $5. Buy tickets via phone at 214-743-2400 or with cash only at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters box office, open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday noon to 4 p.m.

DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN turned magic into a competitive sport with his adaptation of Christopher Priest’s 1995 novel. The Prestige (2006, PG-13, 130 mins..; don’t get it confused with that same year’s Illusionist, one of my favorite Edward Norton films), with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival magicians on a quest for the best illusion, is the next film in this year’s Sunset Screenings presented by AT&T Performing Arts Center and the Dallas Film Society. Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. at Strauss Square, 2403 Flora, Dallas. Free; an R.S.V.P. is encouraged. Coolers and picnic baskets are allowed. attpac.org/index.cfm?pagepath=&id=34434.

CELEBRATE THE BLUES during the Thin Line Fall Series, which plans to show a documentary about music on the second Saturday of each month through December. Music from the Big House (2010, 90 mins.) features Rita Chiarelli, “Canada’s Queen of the Blues,” as she makes a pilgrimage to one of the genre’s birthplaces, Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary (Angola Prison). Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Fine Arts Theater, 115 N. Elm St., Denton. $8. 2013. thinlinefilmfest.com.

THE MET: Live in HD series begins its seventh straight season with Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore (approximately 3 hours) on Oct. 13 at 11:55 a.m. in more than 1,900 theaters across the world, including three in Dallas: AMC NorthPark 15 with Imax and ETX, 8687 N. Central Expressway, Suite 3000; Cinemark 17 with Imax, 11819 Webb Chapel Road; and Galaxy Theater, 11801 McCree Road. For the full schedule and a list of other theaters showing the comic opera starring Anna Netrebko and conducted by Maurizio Benini, go to metoperafamily.org. $18-$24. Purchase tickets via the website or at participating theaters.

GET A JUMP on your cinephile friends when you attend Harlan Jacobson’s Talk Cinema. SMU professor Tearlach Hutcheson, who is also the director of marketing for Studio Movie Grill, hosts previews of critically acclaimed festival films before they hit theaters. Begins Oct. 14 with coffee served at 10:30 a.m. and screenings at 11 a.m. at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St. $15-$20 for single tickets, with day-of-show single tickets available at 10 a.m. at the Modern’s admission desk; $60 and $75 for the series. 1-800-551-9221; talkcinema.com/fortworth.

SUNDOWN AT GRANADA has a new weekly movie series. Next up is Trainspotting (1996, R, 94 mins.) on Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. on the rooftop patio at 3520 Greenville Ave., Dallas. The series will run Wednesday nights through Nov. 21. Free. sundownatgranada.com.

LED ZEPPELIN receives the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors in December, but you get to see its 2007 reunion concert honoring Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, albeit on a movie screen, before that as Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day screens in select theaters Oct. 17-18 at 7:30 p.m., including two in Dallas: AMC NorthPark 15 with Imax and ETX, 8687 N. Central Expressway, Suite 3000; and Cinemark 17 with Imax, 11819 Webb Chapel Road. $15. Tickets are available at participating theater box offices or online at fathomevents.com, where you can also find a full list of participating theaters.

IT’S MY FAVORITE time of the year, and that means Hitchcocktober is going on at the Angelika. Classic Alfred Hitchcock films screen every Thursday this month on the patio as part of the yearly celebration of the legendary filmmaker. Marvel at Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window (1954, PG, 112 mins.) on Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. at the Angelika Film Center and Cafe, 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230 (in Mockingbird Station), Dallas. Vertigo rounds out the schedule. Free. 214-841-4713. angelikafilmcenter.com.

Also: Every Thursday at 7 p.m. the Plano Angelika, 7205 Bishop Road, Suite E6 in the Shops at Legacy. $6. North by Northwest (1959, 136 mins., not rated) is this week’s offering.

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